🌍 Global Steem Village News #5: This week from the ecoTrain community
Consolidating our energy towards a global network of steem-based eco-communities has been an exciting shift of focus for @ecotrain. We deliberately and consciously curate those posts which speak to the issues, challenges and needs of the emerging steem eco-communities around the world.
GREAT content this week - here are some of the gems, eco-green wisdom & insight shared under the #ecotrain tag this week on the steem blockchain. Even if you don't have VP or RC to upvote, a meaningful comment is usually upvoted by a smart author, so please go and lavish your appreciation and engagement on this great content.
We truly are an amazing global community - and growing with new contributors every week!! If you want to help @ecotrain give juicier upvotes, please delegate or increase your delegation if you can. It matters! You loaning us your steem to make more money for you? Bit of a no-brainer, really!
@ecotrain is a artisan-hand-curated community built around the concept of gift economy and actively making our world a better place. We engage around sustainability, eco-green, permaculture, the glories of Mother Earth, inner transformation, alternative energy, earthships & earth building, recycling - in short, all the practical and conceptual underpinnings of paradigm shift.
Each week @eco-alex and @artemislives scour the steemit blockchain for people using the tag, and upvote-comment-curate in the best way they know how.
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Upvote this eco-community curation and our featured posts if you can. Comment, resteem this curation and a few of the posts. Follow, engage and enjoy.
#togetherwecan
@papa-pepper
Sometimes you just gotta jump, when someone calls with a partial load of left-over concrete. @papa-pepper got an unexpected jump-start on his new root cellar - something every eco-community needs: a sheltered, animal-free place to store root vegetables (and wine!) and other harvest surplus.
@senorcoconut
Do You Want To Participate In A Mass Chemical Suicide?
A big part of the motivation behind eco-village is THIS: the threat of poisoning by chemicals and the fact that the "regular" world we have collectively created is no longer a safe place to be, stay or eat. @senorcoconut shares an important podcast and, as usual, chances to with SBI! Always appreciating the engagement he creates.
@trucklife-family
You Hold The Strength of Your Rebirth Within
soil caressing your skin,
you feel the Beat of the Earth
and at Last You Join In.
The expression of eco-community and eco-village in all its forms is an expression of this: people who have collectively reclaimed their power to rebirth the environment they choose to live & love in. @trucklife-family catches these thoughts so beautifully in her poem.
@thebigsweed
Homesteader's Guide On How To Safely Gather Firewood - Reforestation & Emerald Ash Boring Beetle
If your eco-community is in cooler climes or, sweet goddess forbid, in an area where it SNOWS (adjusts bikini strap nervously) then you want @thebigsweed on your team! Staying toasty tropical warm through a long winter requires you to get up close and personal with the ethics, the technique and yes, the HARD WORK of laying in enough firewood for the winter.
@minismallholding
5 Things I'm Doing To Help The Environment
One thing eco-communities do regularly is they REVIEW the basics of the way they live in a daily, practical way. @minismallholding shows us how simple this process can be - and how effective - as she takes @pennsif's #five4theplanet challenge.
@fundakantoria
FundaKantoría SONG: ALELUYA - Recording of a common day of music classes
Community happens in the day-to-day, more so than the grand performances. The Venezuelan musical community, Kantoria, gives us a glimpse into their day to day rehearsal. @fundakantoria shows us how the backbone of a strong community is each smaller unit knowing its part and function well, to hep create a whole of beauty and purpose.
@sallybeth23
Being intimately connected with the ecology of the place where you have chosen to settle means regular, incredibly detailed observation - of the pants, the shadows, the critters and where the water comes from. @sallybeth23 shows us how its done in such a beautiful, reflective way!
@jiva34
What's under the soil where you're planning to live, grow food and establish eco-community? It's a BIG question and not always one that gives the answer we want to hear! @jiva34 deals with yet another round of someone else's junk - stuff they thought they'd bury so it would all magically "go away". Sadly it doesn't work that way and site cleaning and clearing is a reality for many of us.
We hope you have enjoyed these eco-village & eco-community related posts - please LAVISH them with upvotes, reblogs, comments and engagement.
Most importantly, consider writing under the #ecotrain tag this coming week - we love all posts eco-green, earth building, spiritual and natural, but mostly as those things relate to the building and evolution of eco-community.
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Oh, it's an honor to be on this list along with other good authors, we thank @eco-alex and @artemislives for their support from the beginning.